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Weight-Of-Evidence-Based Assessment Of Sediment Quality Of The São Francisco River (Brazil) With The Help Of Software Tool Sqa, Alla Khosrovyan, Maria Jose Salamanca Marin, André Moldenhauer Peret, Débora Fernandes De Almeida, T. Angel Delvalls, Inmaculada Riba

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Weight-of-evidence (WOE) approach is a requirement for comprehensive integrated sediment quality assessment and management worldwide. WOE is a system approach based on collection of several lines of evidences that are able to derive multi-aspect characterization of availability and adverse effects of contaminants for living organisms in water environments. A software tool addressing this approach is already available and based on the statistical package STATISTICA 6.0. The tool provided user-friendly and user-assisting interface for entering and analyzing of data, as well as presented a summary of the results of the conducted analysis. It was designed for environmental scientists and managers, academia …

Species Distribution Modelling And Open Source Gis: Why Are They Still So Loosely Connected?, Anne Ghisla, Duccio Rocchini, Markus Neteler, Michael Forster, Birgit Kleinschmit

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Species Distribution Models (SDMs) are correlative models that use environmental and/or geographical information to explain patterns of species occurrences. Those models are being used in various fields including climate change, invasive species research, evolutionary biology and epidemiology. Thanks to the availability of increasing computational resources, new methods continue to be developed. However, software packages that include the SDM algorithms usually focus on one or few methods, and have different degrees of integration with other geographical and statistical software. Specifically, SDM implementations are often standalone programs developed by university laboratories, either as extensions to statistical software. In few cases they are …

Identifying Optimum Strategies For Land Management Adaptation To Climate Change - A Multiobjective Approach, T. Klein, A. Holzkämper, P. Calanca, J. Fuhrer

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Climate change is likely to alter the conditions for agricultural production with distinct regional patterns, which necessitates adaptation measures that are adjusted to local conditions, but adaptation to maximize production may increase environmental impacts. The objective of this research is to identify sustainable regional land management adaptation strategies to maximize agricultural productivity, while minimizing environmental impacts such as nutrient leaching, soil erosion and an excessive use of water resources. The study area is the Broye catchment in Western Switzerland, where water shortage is common and irrigation is already applied regularly. For this region, the generic crop model CropSyst was calibrated …

Semi-Automatic Delimitation Of Buffer Zones For Protected Areas: A Contribution From Species Distribution Modelling, Cuitlahuac Hernandez-Santiago, Martin Volk

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Preservation of natural protected areas in Mexico requires human activities regulation in the Buffer Zones (Zona de Influencia). These zones have been defined conceptually by law and delineated spatially using physiographical and anthropogenic criteria. The presented study proposes a demarcation based on species distribution modeling as an ecological criterion to prioritize environmental requirements of protected species in “Laguna de Chacahua” National Park. To achieve this, a model in ArcGIS ModelBuilder was developed and applied for the delimitation of a buffer zone for the National Park. The proposed model involve a) obtaining data of 90 species (mammals, reptiles and amphibians) of …

Particles In The Cloud – Running Gis-Based Particle Tracking Models For Fish Larval Dissemination In Traditional And Cloud Computing Architectures, Tiffany C. Vance, Kyle Wilcox

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Models provide a way to understand the complex interactions of biological and physical process. As an example, the movement of dust plumes generated on continents over the adjoining oceans can be modeled for both the physical process of particle transport and for the geochemical effects of the dust deposition on life in the oceans. Models can also describe and link two physical processes; a model can be used to simulate the complex 3-dimensional movement of ocean currents and these model results can be linked to models that predict the movement of many waterborne objects such as fish and larvae, oil …

Efficacy And Stability Of Integrating Fungicide And Cultivar Resistance To Manage Fusarium Head Blight And Deoxynivalenol In Wheat, K. T. Willyerd, C. Li, L. V. Madden, C. A. Bradley, G. C. Bergstrom, L. E. Sweets, M. Mcmullen, J. K. Ransom, A. Grybauskas, L. Osborne, S. N. Wegulo, D. E. Hershman, K. Wise, W. W. Bockus, D. Groth, R. Dill-Macky, E. Milus, P. D. Esker, K. D. Waxman, E. A. Adee, S. E. Ebelhar, B. G. Young, P. A. Paul

Department of Plant Pathology: Faculty Publications

Integration of host resistance and prothioconazole + tebuconazole fungicide application at anthesis to manage Fusarium head blight (FHB) and deoxynivalenol (DON) in wheat was evaluated using data from over 40 trials in 12 U.S. states. Means of FHB index (index) and DON from up to six resistance class–fungicide management combinations per trial (susceptible treated [S_TR] and untreated [S_UT]; moderately susceptible treated [MS_TR] and untreated [MS_UT]; moderately resistant treated [MR_TR] and untreated [MR_UT]) were used in multivariate meta-analyses, and mean log response ratios across trials were estimated and transformed to estimate mean percent control ( C ) due to the management …

Como White Paper - No Melting Pot: Results And Reflections From The 2011 Southeastern Federal Depository Coordinators Salary Survey Project, Yadira V. Payne, Lumarie Guth, Chris Sharpe

Georgia Library Quarterly

The authors launched the first Southeastern Federal Depository Coordinators Salary Survey in March 2011. The intent of the survey was less about salary comparison than it was about job responsibilities, qualifications, and education. From the results, the authors were able to extrapolate interesting and unexpected trends within their niche of librarianship. The diversity revealed through the project responses further reinforced the original idea that Government Information Librarians do not fall into a melting pot category.

The Fair Society: It's Time To Re-Write The Social Contract, Peter A. Corning

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.

The Western Michigan University Magazine, Summer 2012, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Magazine (1997-present)

• News Briefs
• Professor creates, expects to market virtual health counselor
• Online suicide prevention class to aid health professionals, general public
• WMU students don’t simply attend classes: • Engineering next-Gen entrepreneurs • Hands-on experience leads student toward research career
• Training health information technology managers
• Engineering college boosts student success in STEM disciplines
• WMU researchers win $1 million grant, inspire preservice K-12 science educators: WMU is one of just 50 research universities in the nation awarded this prestigious grant.
• Researcher has long career improving life for people with disabilities
• Children’s Trauma Assessment Center recognized nationally
• Once state-run, Michigan Geological Survey now at …

Who's To Blame: How Genetic Information Will Lead To More Accurate Decisions In Toxic Tort Litigation, Allison Hite

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Review Of Report On The “Biology And Stock Status Of Demersal Scalefish Indicator Species In The Gascoyne Coast Bioregion", Department Of Fisheries

Fisheries Occasional Publications

No abstract provided.

Quarterly Reporter - July 2012, South Carolina Institute Of Archaeology And Anthropology--University Of South Carolina

Sport Diver Newsletters

Contents:

2012 Allendale Project..... p.1
July Quarterly Reports..... p.2
2012 Field Training Course..... p.2
Upcoming Events..... p.3
SDAMP News..... p.3
Hobby Diver of the Quarter..... p.4
Feature Hobby Diver Article..... p.4
Join the Dredgehead Family!..... p.4
Reflections From a New Dredgehead..... p.5
Research at the Topper Site..... p.6
My Lowcountry Diving Experience..... p.6
Preserving Our Historic Dive Sites..... p.8
Radioactive Shark Tooth..... p.8
Over 3 Inch SC Great White Shark Tooth..... p.9
Diver Safety - Just One..... p.9
Conservation Corner - How to Properly Display Artifacts..... p.11
Paleontologist’s Panel - Hobby Diver Summer 2012..... p.12
Amer Announces Retirement..... p.14
Letters …

Pattern And Process In Metabolic Ecology: From Biotic Interactions To Cultural Diversity Gradients, William R. Burnside

Biology ETDs

Many ecological patterns and processes are functions of metabolism (Brown 2004), meaning the acquisition, transformation, and allocation of energy, materials, and information within the bodies of individuals and among members of human and other animal societies. Individual metabolic rate should influence behavior by determining the energy available for action as well as the rate at which the body requires fuel. First, I test a key prediction of the metabolic theory of ecology (MTE), that biotic interaction rates are characteristic functions of temperature. Findings support this prediction and suggest that herbivory, predation, parasitism, parasitoidy, and competition increase exponentially with temperature and …

Reproductive Phenology Of Fishes Of The Rio Grande, New Mexico: A Genes-To-Community Approach, Trevor James Krabbenhoft

Biology ETDs

Reproductive phenology is a key life history attribute of long lived organisms that can strongly affect reproductive success and, ultimately, drive community composition. Understanding the ecological causes and consequences and genetic mechanisms shaping reproductive timing is key to predicting the outcome of environmental change (e.g., climate change). The three chapters that comprised this dissertation were focused on elucidating the ecological and genetic underpinnings of reproductive timing in the fish community of an arid-land river, the Rio Grande, New Mexico. In Chapter 1, we assessed reproductive phenology in the Rio Grande fish community with four years of young-of-year sampling data and …

Identification Of The Wings Apart Transcriptional Unit In Drosophila Melanogaster, Ginny R. Morriss

Biology ETDs

Muscle development is an evolutionarily conserved process. Mechanisms that govern the development of specific muscles in invertebrates can inform our understanding of how vertebrate muscles form. Understanding these processes allows us to translate developmental mechanisms to disease pathogenesis, as similar genes and developmental processes are affected by these diseases. In this dissertation, CG14614 is identified as the gene responsible for the wings apart phenotype in Drosophila melanogaster. This mutation leads to a loss of the adult jump muscle (TDT) in most cases and a greater than 60% reduction in muscle fibers in its least severe form. wap mutants fail to …

Linking Environment To Ecology In Arid Land Consumers: Two Case Studies, Ian White Murray

Biology ETDs

The physical environment has a profound influence over many aspects of animal ecology, such as governing the pace and timing of phenology and the patterns of activity across space and time. In extreme habitats such as deserts, the most important components of the physical environment are precipitation and temperature. Not only do these vary temporally and spatially, but this variation may influence the life history and ecology of species. My research examines how variance in temperature and precipitation influences the ecology of two species of desert dwelling consumers (desert woodrats and desert tortoises) over differing temporal scales. In Chapter 1, …

Effects Of Translocation And Climatic Events On The Population Genetic Structure Of Black Bears In New Mexico, Frederic S. Winslow

Biology ETDs

Population structure of the American black bear (Ursus americanus) in New Mexico has been shaped by anthropogenic and natural forces. Black bears occur in habitat islands throughout New Mexico with natural movement among islands influenced by periodic drought, resource limitations and dispersal. Both natural movement and human mediated translocations primarily involve male black bears because of their tendency to move farther distances and more frequent conflict with human dominated landscapes than females. Using DNA microsatellite analysis to investigate the degree of differentiation between different population segments (Fst =0.025 across genetic loci, range = 0.018-0.032) we determined that black bear populations …

Anaerobic Digestion Technology: How Agricultural Producers And The Environment Might Profit From Nuisance Lawsuits, Catherine M. H. Keske

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

Turning The Crown Upside Down: Gene Tree Parsimony Roots The Eukaryotic Tree Of Life, Laura A. Katz, Jessica R. Grant, Laura Wegener Parfrey, J. Gordon Burleigh

Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

The first analyses of gene sequence data indicated that the eukaryotic tree of life consisted of a long stem of microbial groups topped by a crown-containing plants, animals, and fungi and their microbial relatives. Although more recent multigene concatenated analyses have refined the relationships among the many branches of eukaryotes, the root of the eukaryotic tree of life has remained elusive. Inferring the root of extant eukaryotes is challenging because of the age of the group (∼1.7-2.1 billion years old), tremendous heterogeneity in rates of evolution among lineages, and lack of obvious outgroups for many genes. Here, we reconstruct a …

Police Blotter, Unlv Department Of Police Services

Police Blotter

No abstract provided.

The Double Pendulum: Construction And Exploration, Benjamin J. Knudson

Physics

The exploration of a nonlinear mechanical system, the Double Pendulum, a physical pendulum on the end of a physical pendulum, using analytic and experimental approaches. Also included discussion of the design and construction of the Double Pendulum apparatus to work with Vernier LabPro and LoggerPro. The apparatus outputs live data of the angles to a LoggerPro which collects and produces time evolution graphs as well as a corresponding animation lending itself to comparison with theoretical models. Normal mode frequencies are found both analytically and experimentally for the the general (real) double pendulum. Examples of both simple (periodic) and complex (chaotic) …

Parental Diet And Risk Of Retinoblastoma Resulting From New Germline Rb1 Mutation, Greta R. Bunin, Marilyn Tseng, Yimei Li, Anna T. Meadows, Arupa Ganguly

Kinesiology and Public Health

We conducted a case–control study of sporadic bilateral retinoblastoma, which results from a new germline RB1 mutation, to investigate the role of parents' diet before their child's conception. Parents of 206 cases from nine North American institutions and 269 controls participated; of these, fathers of 184 cases and 223 controls and mothers of 204 cases and 260 controls answered a food frequency questionnaire administered by phone about their diet in the year before the child's conception. Cases provided DNA for RB1 mutation testing. We assessed parents' diet by examining 19 food groups. Father's intake of dairy products and fruit was …

A Study Of Faculty Data Curation Behaviors And Attitudes At A Teaching-Centered University, Jeanine Marie Scaramozzino, Marisa L. Ramírez, Karen J. Mcgaughey

Library Scholarship

Academic libraries need reliable information on researcher data needs, data curation practices and attitudes in order to identify and craft appropriate services that support outreach and teaching. This paper describes information gathered from a survey distributed to the College of Science and Mathematics faculty at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly), a Master’s-granting, teaching-centered institution. There was a 60%+ response rate to the survey. The survey results provided insight into the science researchers’ data curation awareness, behaviors and attitudes, and what needs they exhibited for services and education regarding maintenance and management of data. It is important …

Experimental Evidence For The Interplay Of Exogenous And Endogenous Factors On The Movement Ecology Of A Migrating Songbird, Emily B. Cohen, Frank R. Moore, Richard A. Fischer

Faculty Publications

Movement patterns during songbird migration remain poorly understood despite their expected fitness consequences in terms of survival, energetic condition and timing of migration that will carry over to subsequent phases of the annual cycle. We took an experimental approach to test hypotheses regarding the influence of habitat, energetic condition, time of season and sex on the hour-by-hour, local movement decisions of a songbird during spring stopover. To simulate arrival of nocturnal migrants at unfamiliar stopover sites, we translocated and continuously tracked migratory red-eyed vireos (Vireo olivaceus) throughout spring stopover with and without energetic reserves that were released in two replicates …

A Defense Of Dissents In Investment Arbitration, Pedro J. Martinez-Fraga, Harout Jack Samra

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.

Sbe Notícias, Ano 7, No. 231, July 1, 2012, Marcelo A. Rasteiro, Delci K. Ishida, Agatha Matsumoto

SBE Notícias

SBE lança mais uma edição da Espeleo-Tema; UPE continua os trabalhos no Areado; Vale destruirá milhares de cavernas na Amazônia; Extração de minério ameaça cavernas e vegetação rara na Amazônia; As cavernas perdidas da Amazônia; Quando sós, morcegos vampiros emitem sons únicos e variados; Nova espécie de morcego é descoberta em Linhares ES; Viagem ao centro da Terra mostra os mistérios do vulcão Thrihnukagigur; Projeto estuda biodiversidade da fauna associada às cavidas na Canga; Cerâmica de 20 mil anos é encontrada em caverna no sul da China; Livro sobre paleoflora está disponível na internet; Foto do leitor: Gruta Areado Grande …

Louisiana Agriculture Summer, 2012, Lsu Agcenter

Louisiana Agriculture

No abstract provided.

Controlling A Master Switch Of Adipocyte Development And Insulin Sensitivity: Covalent Modifications Of Pparγ, Z. Elizabeth Floyd, Jacqueline M. Stephens

Faculty Publications

Adipocytes are highly specialized cells that play a central role in lipid homeostasis and the maintenance of energy balance. Obesity, an excessive accumulation of adipose tissue, is a major risk factor for the development of Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), cardiovascular disease, and hypertension. A variety of studies suggest that obesity and T2DM can be linked to a breakdown in the regulatory mechanisms that control the expression and transcriptional activity of PPARγ. PPARγ is a nuclear hormone receptor that functions as a master switch in controlling adipocyte differentiation and development. Also important in controlling glucose homeostasis and insulin sensitivity, PPARγ …

Assessment Of The Mass, Length, Center Of Mass, And Principal Moment Of Inertia Of Body Segments In Adult Males Of The Brown Anole (Anolis Sagrei) And Green, Or Carolina, Anole (Anolis Carolinensis), Pierre Legreneur, Dominique G. Homberger, Vincent Bels

Faculty Publications

This study provides a morphometric data set of body segments that are biomechanically relevant for locomotion in two ecomorphs of adult male anoles, namely, the trunk-ground Anolis sagrei and the trunk-crown Anolis carolinensis. For each species, 10 segments were characterized, and for each segment, length, mass, location of the center of mass, and radius of gyration were measured or calculated, respectively. The radii of gyration were computed from the moments of inertia by using the double swing pendulum method. The trunk-ground A. sagrei has relatively longer and stockier hindlimbs and forelimbs with smaller body than A. carolinensis. These differences between …

Realizing Human Rights In Investment Treaty Arbitration: A Perspective From Within The International Investment Law Toolbox, Yannick Radi

North Carolina Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.